Curious case. No audio even all tricks is made, but after installing pulseaudio audio is working!

Installed (and re-installed) packages:

sudo apt-get --reinstall install libasound2 libasound2-plugins alsa-utils alsa-oss alsamixergui apulse alsa-firmware-loaders pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils pulseaudio-utils

Computer info:

$ inxi -Fxz
System:
Kernel: 6.1.0-9-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
Desktop: IceWM v: 3.4.0 Distro: antiX-23-runit_x64-full Grup Yorum 3
February 2023 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: TOSHIBA product: SATELLITE C50D-B v: PSCN4E-00X00YN5
serial:
Mobo: TOSHIBA model: ZBWAE v: 1.00 serial:
BIOS: TOSHIBA v: 1.30 date: 06/06/2014
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 26.0 Wh (99.6%) condition: 26.1/44.5 Wh (58.6%)
volts: 17.1 min: 15.1 model: TOSHIBA PABAS0241231 status: charging
CPU:
Info: dual core model: AMD E1-6010 APU with AMD Radeon R2 Graphics bits: 64
type: MCP arch: Puma rev: 1 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 998 min/max: 1000/1350 boost: disabled cores: 1: 998
2: 998 bogomips: 5390
Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Mullins [Radeon R2 Graphics] vendor: Toshiba driver: radeon
v: kernel arch: GCN-2 bus-ID: 00:01.0
Device-2: Chicony TOSHIBA Web Camera - HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 1-1.4:4
Display: server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: radeon
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: radeon
resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: KABINI ( LLVM 15.0.6 DRM 2.50
6.1.0-9-amd64) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Kabini HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Toshiba driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:01.1
Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia vendor: Toshiba driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.2
Sound API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-9-amd64 running: yes
Sound Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Toshiba
driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac:
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Lite-On driver: ath9k v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac:
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 223.57 GiB used: 8.19 GiB (3.7%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: A-Data model: SU650 size: 223.57 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 34.01 GiB used: 7.12 GiB (20.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: /home size: 179.44 GiB used: 1.07 GiB (0.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 5.19 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
dev: /dev/sda5
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 52.6 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 52.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 156 Uptime: 7m Memory: 6.71 GiB used: 886.3 MiB (12.9%)
Init: runit runlevel: 2 Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 Packages: 1766 Shell: Bash
v: 5.2.15 inxi: 3.3.25

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The same issue with HP 655 Notebook PC – in antiX 22 audio works with alsa, but antiX 23 requires pulseaudio. It seems to be a antiX 23 issue.

In HP 655 volumeicon does not start if there is no speaker test before. One solution is to add the next line to $HOME/.desktop-session/startup file.

speaker-test --channels 2 --test wav --nloops 1 && volumeicon &

HP 655 info:

System:
Kernel: 5.10.142-antix.2-amd64-smp arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 12.2.0 Desktop: IceWM v: 3.4.0 Distro: antiX-23-runit_x64-full Grup
Yorum 3 February 2023 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP 655 Notebook PC
v: 087F110000305B10002620110 serial:
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 1885 v: 66.34 serial:
UEFI-[Legacy]: Insyde v: F.27 date: 09/17/2013
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 66.3 Wh (93.0%) condition: 71.3/71.3 Wh (100.0%)
volts: 10.6 min: 10.8 model: HP status: discharging
CPU:
Info: dual core model: AMD E2-1800 APU with Radeon HD Graphics bits: 64
type: MCP arch: Bobcat rev: 0 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1638 high: 1649 min/max: 850/1700 boost: disabled cores:
1: 1627 2: 1649 bogomips: 6787
Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Wrestler [Radeon HD 7340] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: radeon v: kernel arch: TeraScale-2 bus-ID: 00:01.0
Device-2: Realtek HP Truevision HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 1-3:2
Display: server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: radeon
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: r600 gpu: radeon
resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: AMD PALM (DRM 2.50.0 /
5.10.142-antix.2-amd64-smp LLVM 15.0.6) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Wrestler HDMI Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:01.1
Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.2
Sound API: ALSA v: k5.10.142-antix.2-amd64-smp running: yes
Sound Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 2000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac:
Device-2: Ralink RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 bus-ID: 04:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac:
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Ralink RT3290 Bluetooth vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: N/A
bus-ID: 04:00.1
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 223.57 GiB used: 8.01 GiB (3.6%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: A-Data model: SU630 size: 223.57 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 25.18 GiB used: 5.65 GiB (22.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
ID-2: /home size: 165.41 GiB used: 2.36 GiB (1.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 3.1 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda6
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 50.5 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 52.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 154 Uptime: 20m Memory: 3.45 GiB used: 953 MiB (27.0%)
Init: runit runlevel: 2 Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 Packages: 1741 Shell: Bash
v: 5.2.15 inxi: 3.3.25